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Google SEO Tip #124 – How Should I Handle Localized Content?

By James Martell on Sunday, May 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

TweetLet’s say I want to add multiple languages/countries to mysite.com. Would I be better off including all translations within mydomain.com or would I be better off creating mydomain.fr, mydomain.nl, mydomain.ca, etc.? Matt Cutts: Well mydomain.ca is Canada so if you’re English you don’t need to translate that one unless you wanted to add a lot [...]

Google SEO Tip #123 – What Are Some of the Projects that the Web Spam Team Might Tackle In 2011?

By James Martell on Thursday, May 19th, 2011 | 2 Comments

TweetMatt Cutts: Today’s question actually comes from. I seeded the page with various questions such as what are some of the projects the web spam team might tackle in 2011 and that one actually got 40 or 50 votes so I thought I would go ahead and give a quick preview of the sorts of [...]

Google SEO Tip #122 – Does Google Recognize The Difference Between Different Meanings of A Word In A Query?

By James Martell on Sunday, May 15th, 2011 | No Comments

TweetMatt Cutts: We relatively do a good job about that. If you only do the query “boxer” then we really don’t have any idea which one you mean for that particular query. But suppose you take “Sterling Silver” vs. “Stirling Engine” and you misspell both of those with ‘sturling’ we’ll correct ‘sturling engine’ with an [...]

Google SEO Tip #121 – Is HTML Validation Necessary For Ranking?

By James Martell on Thursday, May 12th, 2011 | 3 Comments

TweetMatt Cutts: Today we have a guest to answer today’s question. Danny how would you answer that question? Danny: Well a lot of websites can have invalid code but render just fine because modern browsers do a good job dealing with bad code. And so it’s not that the code has to be absolutely perfect [...]

Google SEO Tip #120 – Do You Recommend Article Marketing As An SEO Strategy?

By James Martell on Monday, May 9th, 2011 | 9 Comments

TweetMatt Cutts: Honestly I’m not a huge fan of article marketing. I mean if you think about it you’re writing an article and you try to include a link at the bottom and you’re hoping a bunch of other people put up copies or mirrors or duplicates of that article and that those links might [...]

Google SEO Tip # 118 – How Important Is It To Have Keywords In A Domain Name?

By James Martell on Saturday, April 30th, 2011 | No Comments

TweetMatt Cutts: What Mcdot is referring to in this question is that if you’re registering a new domain name and you want to try and compete in some particular niche in SEO you can take a couple different strategies. You can go for something really brandable like Twitter that people will remember but isn’t necessarily [...]

Google SEO Tip # 117 – Will Google Penalize Sites Which Only Link Using the No Follow Attribute?

By James Martell on Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 | No Comments

TweetMatt Cutts: This is a little bit of a “have you stopped beating your wife” type question in that there is an assumption baked in that is not necessarily true. Specifically you are saying, “many webmasters are linking only in No Follow and that’s killing the natural way of links.” Whenever we look at the [...]

Google SEO Tip #116 – Can I Specify The Canonical Of All Of A Product’s Review Pages As A Single URL?

By James Martell on Sunday, April 17th, 2011 | No Comments

TweetYay or Nay: putting a canonical tag on individual product review pages that each points to the ‘all reviews for this product’ page for the particular product. Assuming we’re not really that keen on the individual review pages ranking. Matt Cutts: If I understand what you are saying, imagine that you have a product page [...]

Google SEO Tip #115 – How Does Google Handle Not Found Pages That Don’t Return A 404?

By James Martell on Thursday, April 14th, 2011 | No Comments

TweetIs returning a 200 instead of a 404 considered spam? Matt Cutts: I wouldn’t necessarily consider it spam. A lot of the time it’s not done on deliberately because if it were then people would return a 404. We do have a name for this at Google. I’m not sure whether we’ve talked about it [...]

Archive for the ‘Matt Cutts’ Category

Google SEO Tip #124 – How Should I Handle Localized Content?

Google SEO Tip #123 – What Are Some of the Projects that the Web Spam Team Might Tackle In 2011?

Google SEO Tip #122 – Does Google Recognize The Difference Between Different Meanings of A Word In A Query?

Google SEO Tip #121 – Is HTML Validation Necessary For Ranking?

Google SEO Tip #120 – Do You Recommend Article Marketing As An SEO Strategy?

Google SEO Tip # 118 – How Important Is It To Have Keywords In A Domain Name?

Google SEO Tip # 117 – Will Google Penalize Sites Which Only Link Using the No Follow Attribute?

Google SEO Tip #116 – Can I Specify The Canonical Of All Of A Product’s Review Pages As A Single URL?

Google SEO Tip #115 – How Does Google Handle Not Found Pages That Don’t Return A 404?

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